In 2012, the New Zealand Police introduced a new
Family Violence Policy to guide police response to
family violence occurrences including a new tool
for assessing situational risk factors. The Ontario
Domestic Assault ...

In 1955, the Aotearoa/New Zealand government legislated the closed stranger adoption period. Approximately 80,000 children were constructed as a legal fiction when deemed as if born to a legally married couple. Birth family ...

The contemporary mother faces difficult choices when
deciding whether to be either a ‘stay at home’ or a ‘working
mother’. Conflicting discourses of good and bad
mothering revolve around a political divide under ...

Advocacy services in collaboration with living
without violence programmes have the potential to
increase experiences of safety and well-being for the
victims of domestic violence. However, advocacy
services are not ...

A hugely contentious issue in society today is whether
individuals have the right to choose when and how to die.
The ethics, legality and morality of euthanasia have been
hotly debated in many countries around the world. ...

A discursive approach to knowledge contends that
language is the constitutive force of experience and
lived reality. Meaning is created through language
use within relationships, while discourses function
as the ...

Within contemporary life, women struggle within
discourses of stay-at-home mothering and working
mother in terms of the detriment to a child’s
development. Although contemporary research
tends to isolate work-life ...

Previous research into the effectiveness and impact of
domestic violence programmes has often focused on recidivism
and re-offence data or self-report measures.
Such research is constrained by a reliance on incidences
of ...